Your most stressful Role

[Lt Col Keith]

OK: As an experienced ex army officer; my most difficult experience is to be a noob and bite my tongue. I don't wan't to spoil your game experience so I have tended to hold my advocacy and let you get on with it.
I am sorry to say this; but many of the squad leaders I have gamed with have inadequate man mangement skills to enable an effective infantry section. Frankly, they would have not made Corporal in my Batallion.
I have to say, that as a member of FSG, I had confidence in the squad leaders and thoroughly enjoyed my gaming experience

[Pronck]

OK: As an experienced ex army officer; my most difficult experience is to be a noob and bite my tongue. I don't wan't to spoil your game experience so I have tended to hold my advocacy and let you get on with it.
I am sorry to say this; but many of the squad leaders I have gamed with have inadequate man mangement skills to enable an effective infantry section. Frankly, they would have not made Corporal in my Batallion.
I will continue to game and offer advice to my squad leader. I will not attempt to take command and ruin their game experience.

Well if you find out that your squadleader doesn't have the right skill-set to lead a infantry section of 6 people , step up and act as a NCO / Fireteamleader / Assistant . I bet most of the people will appreciate it.

[Lt Col Keith]

Well if you find out that your squadleader doesn't have the right skill-set to lead a infantry section of 6 people , step up and act as a NCO / Fireteamleader / Assistant . I bet most of the people will appreciate it.

Sorry Pronk; my experience is in the negative. Very few clan squad leaders take advice and I am loathe to play the big "I am" . Further, I am not experienced in gaming, so I am reluctant to offer advice in game.
PR does not , as yet, truly reflect my combat experience and is still, to all intense and purpose, has limited combat reality. Frankly, I find it the best of bad lot. This I accept as s a function of software and my comments are intended , hopefully, to lead those who know how to develop a far more realistic combat environment.

[Gracler]

its hard to compare PR with the real deal since there is many things that you cant compare.

First of all you don't really know who you are dealing with and what there current state of mind is unless if you talk to them for a while which you probably don't have time to in 1 round. People have different mindsets and are located in different countries which creates a variation like no other. In real life when different country army's has to cooperate you quickly see that they also can have difficulties but they are sorted out over time.

I find this is why its so challenging to squad-lead in PR that there isn't just 1 way that works for all.
Then comes the computer skills, the situation awareness, and non-existing fear of death that also sets PR apart from he real life. Not much to do about that...yet!

[Ambush]

I shouldn't be surprised that most people say SL, but I am because I truely enjoy SL. What I don't enjoy is people that run off or constantly want to "Move up" or any time I say we will do this and someone goes on a 3 min explaination about how we could do this other thing and it works because of these reasons. It sure seems like most people want to control the squad, therefore don't they want to be SL? I'll bet if SL kit had a GL, or could be equiped with the M249, more poeple would want it, but that is just rediculous.

[Pronck]

Sorry Pronk; my experience is in the negative. Very few clan squad leaders take advice and I am loathe to play the big "I am" . Further, I am not experienced in gaming, so I am reluctant to offer advice in game.
PR does not , as yet, truly reflect my combat experience and is still, to all intense and purpose, has limited combat reality. Frankly, I find it the best of bad lot. This I accept as s a function of software and my comments are intended , hopefully, to lead those who know how to develop a far more realistic combat environment.

Just keep screaming your men forward and it will be alright , just make sure the men in your squad follow the rules your SL has set , make sure they move when they need to move. That is one of the problems I sometimes encounter as a SL , I need to get on guy back on track and in the meantime the rest of the guys wonder off. So often I am more babysitting than trying to outflank the enemy and cut them off from their "supply lines".

We all recognize it , we order the AR to suppress the enemy and Rifleman 1 and 2 should follow , then you say "everyone else stay in cover in this building". And as soon as you move your AR is not shooting , the enemies pop up and shoot you in the face , Rifleman 1 and 2 stay in cover in the building where the others should be and you will find your Medic and Specialist doing a bayonet charge on the enemy. So it seems like whatever you say , it doesn't matter how you say it and how you sound like , people just don't listen.

Sorry , I had to share this. And by the way the only solution I can find for people that are not following orders is execute them in the field with my pistol.

[Rabbit]

Being a machine gunner, killer reload times and after you let out the a few bursts everyone is shooting at you. It also seems anytime I clear out a house all my rounds form this mystical halo around the enemy. Its very love hate for me.

[Tequila]

For me, flying. I am an OK pilot, but if(when) things go wrong, you take a lot of heat for your mistakes.

[Tarranauha200]

Being a pilot is relaxing actually. Things usually dont go wrong and when they do you just blame lag.

[MrBrooks]

None because it's a game and games don't cause me stress. Why would a game cause you stress?

[13DarkWolf]

Squad Leader can be the most taxing or rewarding experience you can have in PR in my view. I love playing as 1IC for an Inf squad and find myself doing it more often than not. It requires a solid understanding of the gameplay mechanics, confidence to make decisions and liase with other squads as well as a thorough knowledge of the map. Nothing is more stressful than if your plan falls apart and the team starts losing as a result. Its amazing how PR pretty accurately simulates what its like to lead in the field if you are playing seriously.

[Tennessee88]

I am limited in what I answer as my only real roles are (in this order) grunt, armor, squad leader on rare occasion.

I voted armor though. Some rounds it is fine and we have a blast. But most rounds, the constant need to balance out supporting the inf, watching for hats, always scanning for enemy armor, deciding the best approach, etc. can get hectic. I white knuckle when I drive or gun on a tank because one wrong move and 20 tickets are gone.

[matty1053]

Being Squad Lead is not stressfull in my opinion.

You don't like the people bugging you? Then don't listen to them! Don't like Squad Member? Kick em'!


But, bing a heli pilot is a pain in the behind. Getting stupid requests for drops near enemy tanks and stuff w/o them telling you.... man.

[CR8Z]

Squad leading is stressful because you have a lot of people relying on your skill, your decisions, your tactics, your ability to communicate with other SLs and your squad, and do it all with bullets whizzing by your head and explosions going off all around you while various people are screaming in your ear with insults, requests, information both good and bad, the f*king "pew pew" people, and just screaming in general. It's loud, it's chaotic, and you're responsible for your squad being successful and having a good time.

Squad leading is not stressful because of annoying people. If that were the case, internet forums would be FAR too stressful to me.

[AnA10Warthog]

Squad leading is stressful because you have a lot of people relying on your skill...

That's why I don't fly helicopters, with being a squad lead I listen to other SL's and know how other SL's I've had would have acted. Using these as mentors to guide my gameplay, I don't take it too seriously, the more stressed you are, the more likely you are to fail.

[CR8Z]

Sometimes stress focuses you. That's why I like this game. I can focus on nothing but this, because it requires my full attention.

[Bolshevik]

Being a squad member can definitely be stressful if your squad leader is leading you to pointless tasks/not being serious when you are, but I would say transport pilot. I personally haven't transport piloted in BF2, but I did in ARMA and there sure were some stressful days!

[Jakoporeeno]

what the hell is a smacktard?

[UneakReaper]

Flying Choppers is very stressful, but Squad leader is too i think.

But when you're a N00b like me, almost everything in this game is
i'm starting to feel more confident driving tanks and leading squads but at first i remember being Medic
and running everywhere to find wounded teammates, getting shot at and not finding them

I think everything in this game is a bit stressful and that's what make the game so good

[Warior135]

Commander.

Its like squad leader, except every whining SL HAS ABOUT 5-6 OTHER PEOPLE WHINING BEHIND HIM!!!